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Illustration of Calamophyton trees

Earth’s earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils

07 Mar 2024

The oldest fossilised forest known on Earth – dating from 390 million years ago – has been found in the high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and...

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Final excavations underway at Ham Hill

29 Aug 2013

Archaeologists from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff are currently undertaking their third, and final, round of excavations at Ham Hill...

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Excavations at Ham Hill, Somerset.

Ham Hill digs enhance picture of Iron Age life

30 Aug 2012

A second season of excavations at Britain’s biggest Iron Age hill-fort has uncovered remains of Roman weaponry, and the site of the first “ham stone...

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Digging at Ham Hill.

Inside Britain’s biggest Iron Age fortress

01 Sep 2011

A major excavation at Britain’s biggest Iron Age hill-fort has begun in Somerset, in the hope that it will at last enable historians to explain the...

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